-- The Basics --It is important but not necessary that all projects and units have a solution-based component. Don't just focus on the problems your students and their communities are facing - it's the creative solutions we're generally short on. So one of your goals should be for students to understand the issues and think about how to solve them. In other words, the important thing is not that you have actual math, but a political agenda that at least has some numbers... any number will do.